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The head of actor of the internal Revenue Service plans to retire on Friday, the agency announced on Tuesday, after the weeks of chaos and the agency’s discounts since President Donald Trump took office.
The departure of the interim IRS commissioner, Doug O’Donnell, suddenly comes when the agency is heading to the time of the crisis of the tax deposit season.
The secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessent, announced in a press release that the IRS will be led by Melanie Krause, the agency’s head of the agency who was sympathetic to the efforts of the Elon Musk Government Ministry of the Agency. Trump intends to The former representative Billy Long To direct the IRS.
“The IRS has been my professional house for 38 years,” O’Donnell said in a press release. “I deeply care about the institution and its inhabitants and I am convinced that Melanie will be an exceptional steward of the service until a new commissioner is confirmed.”
He was temporarily appointed to this role after the IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel resigned When Trump took office last month. The New York Times was the first to relate to O’Donnell’s retirement.
Krause’s elevation comes after spending several years as an IRS data specialist before being promoted to chief in chief last April. For some within the agency, Krause is considered to be more sympathetic for Doge’s work within the Treasury Department than other long -standing career officials.
DOGE attempts To access the IRS software and data systems and within the Treasury Department, has stimulated a significant decline both within the ministry and the court, where confidentiality have limited some access to private information and code.
DOGE seeks to access IRS data systems, which contain very sensitive personal and financial information on more than 100 million declarants and individuals. A group of defenders of taxpayers, groups and unions and unions brought an emergency complaint before the Federal Court to “stop unhindered access and without law of Doge to personal data at levels (which) endanger the intimacy of hundreds of millions of Americans”. The judge has not yet responded to requests from the case.
The IRS dismissed nearly 7,000 workers last week, according to a person familiar with the agency. Workers who have lost their jobs were more recently hired and therefore had probationary status, which makes them easier to detach themselves, said the source.
IRS workers who have lost their jobs have been described as large -part listeners and support workers involved in compliance work, many of whom have been hired in the past few months of the Biden administration.
This story has been updated with additional developments.